That does look quite interesting. Have to say, when I read your post I thought, "Why on earth would anyone bother to make an allegory for a problem that ceased to exist in 1994?" But from the trailer I've seen it looks more like treatment of immigrants, which is more worth allegorizing these days.

A comedian has been elected to the US Senate! It sounds bad but isn't -- he's been a very smart, fairly sensible political commentator for years now, and this Senate race has been dragging on under appeals and such for months.

If you've played Passage and are interested in the creator at all, you can see him here chatting in this teaser trailer for an upcoming documentary that has him and perennial cranky-old-game-designer Chris Crawford in it. You don't get much but he seems like a very nice young man. :)

I thought of you guys the other day when I saw a review card on one of Cassandra Claire's books in Borders. As closely as I can remember, it contained the phrase, "this book is comparable to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, and that's saying something!"